Bruchelle's Bagel Bistro

• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score55 pts
• critical violations3
• last inspectedSeptember 24, 2026 →
• address16340 Se 256Th St, 400, Covington 98042

Is Bruchelle's Bagel Bistro clean?

Bruchelle's Bagel Bistro is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on September 24, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Bruchelle's Bagel Bistro?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 24, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🍴utensils stored sketchy
  4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
• 🤒staff working while sickcritical
  0300 - Proper ill worker and conditional employee practices; no ill workers present; proper reporting of illness
• ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical
• ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedurescritical

When was Bruchelle's Bagel Bistro last inspected?

Bruchelle's Bagel Bistro has 9 inspections on record going back to January 5, 2021, averaging 13 points.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

Bruchelle's Bagel Bistro vs Covington

Covington runs 84% clean across 178 tracked restaurants — 149 clean, 26 mid, 3 cooked.

Against the 178 spots Cooked tracks in Covington, this one comes out cleaner than 0% of them.

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How Seattle grades restaurants

Public Health — Seattle & King County posts a word, not a letter: Excellent, Good, Okay, or Needs To Improve. The rating is deliberately not a snapshot — it averages the establishment’s recent routine inspections, so one bad day does not sink a consistently clean kitchen and one good day does not rescue a bad one. Inspectors score violations in red points for things that directly cause foodborne illness and blue points for everything else; around 45 red points triggers a mandatory re-inspection. Newly opened or recently changed spots can show as Not Rated until enough inspections accumulate.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Public Health — Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated September 24, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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